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UPDATE, JAN. 24, 5:26 P.M.: The support Newport-Mesa Unified School District Superintendent Jeffrey Hubbard enjoyed from his Board of Education disappeared into the paneling separating trustees from the public barred from a secret meeting ...

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A deputy district attorney in Barstow arrested for threatening to murder her boss reportedly told a co-worker last October's Seal Beach shooting massacre was her "fantasy." Don't be surprised if Barbara McClanahan, who is diabetic, uses ...

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"He [the boyfriend] said, 'I didn't ejaculate' and she [the Anaheim high school junior] said, 'He didn't penetrate.' So it must not have been the best sex."
--Straight-faced Orange County defense lawyer Robert Viefhaus explaining in his closing ar...

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Speaker of the
Palestinian parliament Aziz Duwaik, whose secret meeting with UC Irvine students and faculty visiting Israel
in 2009 raised cackles in some corners, was ordered to be held without trial for six months,
his lawyer said tod...

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On a lark today, I decided to check up on the pendejo skins over at Radio White, the Orange-based Internet radio station which had been the nation's longest-running white-power broadcasting operation. This was the place where the gabacho race's dum...

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That crazy Barbara Coe is at it again! The aging cigarette that is the head of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform has been a bit quiet on her email blasts as of recent, preferring to send out stories that claim pedophilia is a...

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A male teacher who fondled little girls at his Garden Grove elementary school and a Santa Ana Walmart was sentenced Monday to eight years in state prison and the burden of having to register as a sex offender for life.
A jury in October h...

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Nineteen-year-old Scott Sittler lived another 15 years paralyzed and on a respirator after Erwin Johnny Sanchez shot him in the head on a quiet Santa Ana street in 1994. But after Sittler died of pneumonia in February 2009, the district attorney's ...

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And you thought you had it rough: Esther Adler was
physically abused by a family member from age 3 and forced into
becoming a caregiver to her handicapped mother at age 8. She ran away from
her ultra-conservative Jewish family but was l...

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Jennifer Hoff looks up in sudden panic, tilts her cell phone toward her chin and says, "I wanna know if he has any shoes on." She returns to the sergeant on the other end of the line. "Can I ask you to just radio the officer in the street?" she plea...

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You were the sweet woman in a silver Toyota Camry that I rear-ended on PCH in Laguna Beach on a Friday at rush hour. Totally my bad. I think you must have heard my brakes squeal and my tires lock as I hit you. We got out of our cars, and the first t...

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DEAR MEXICAN: I was born in los estados unidos, my father Tamaulipas, and my mother is a third-generation Chicana. Being married to a mexicano, we recently vacationed in his hometown of Apatzingan, Michoacn. It was my first time meeting my in-laws ...

The biography of Dr. Hazem Chehabi reads as though it were something out of a Horace Greeley fable. The chairman of the UC Irvine Foundation, the fund-raising arm of the university, came to this country as a 23-year-old medical student from his nati...

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Damn, where did all you people come from? The OCeeker arrived about 15 minutes after the service started at Harvest Orange County and practically had to park at Harvest Riverside. Thankfully, little signs directed his cigar-smoking ass to the packed...

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Anaheim police detectives revealed in a search warrant that suspected Orange County serial killer Itzcoatl Ocampo admitted to them after his arrest that he stalked his fourth homeless victim for three days.
The allegation supports statements by Di...

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How's this for a rare dilemma: A Mexico City native facing charges she murdered her infant baby in 2009 and tossed the girl's body in a Stanton trash can was told she could testify in her own defense today only if she spoke in Spanish and used an i...

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Good news, all five readers of you: I've finally been able to move out all my Orange County history books from the catacombs into my new office, meaning I now have full access to all sorts of directories and local history books that I can ...

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First, it was mustaches. Then, exposed arms and legs.
And now, beards have finally gotten an accepting nod at the Happiest Place on Earth.
Learn more about the hairy faces you'll soon be seeing at Disneyland after the jump.
Disn...

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One of the reasons why I love writing historical-themed cover stories is that it gives me the excuse to look through years of microfilm of the county's old newspapers--not just the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Times, but the coun...